Standing Girl, Egon Schiele | Mia

standing female figure who has fabric around waist that she is holding up and partially covers one breast; fabric has geometric pattern — Standing Girl, c. 1910
Egon Schiele
Conté crayon and tempera wash over black chalk on brown wrapping paper
The John R. Van Derlip Fund and gift from Dr. Otto Kallir 69.7
Not on View
Standing Girl is the largest known drawing from Egon Schiele’s short but prolific career. His life played out against the backdrop of Sigmund Freud’s studies of the mind and intense debates about the treatment of human sexuality in the arts. Characteristic of early twentieth-century Viennese art, this provocative sheet—actually brown wrapping paper—epitomizes the era’s decorative ornamentation and decadent eroticism. Schiele’s contours, at once graceful and awkward, create a momentary confusion between bodily mass and negative space, laying open the mysterious relationship between inward and outward realities. Setting the figure’s clawlike hands against her virginal, downcast eyes, Schiele struck a balance between corruption and purity.

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Title: Standing Girl
Dated: c. 1910
Artist: Egon Schiele
Nationality: Austrian
Artist Life: 1890 - 1918
Role: Artist
Gallery: Not on View
Department: European Art
Dimension: 52 3/8 x 20 5/8 in. (133 x 52.4 cm) (image)61 3/8 x 28 5/8 x 3/4 in. (155.89 x 72.71 x 1.91 cm) (outer frame; black)
Credit: The John R. Van Derlip Fund and gift from Dr. Otto Kallir
Accession Number: 69.7
Medium: Conté crayon and tempera wash over black chalk on brown wrapping paper
Country: Austria
Century: 20th century
Provenance: Joseph Urban, New York (before d. 1932; sold to Kallir); [Dr. Otto Kallir, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, until 1969; partial gift ($15,000), partial sale ($15,000) to Mia, 1969]
Rights: No Copyright - United States
Classification: Drawings
Object Name: Drawing
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